Opening day of turkey season several years back my father, grandfather and I were hunting on our farm. We got a couple of birds fired up on my uncle's land down the creek (my uncle lets a couple of guys hunt on his land and they are nice uns). After we got setup I hear those guys on my uncles between us and the birds. The birds skirted around them and came our way but all of a sudden got quiet. Next thing I know this huge gobbler comes by us in a hurry but is out of range. After he is gone dad asked me if I moved so of coarse I tell him no and accuse him of moving. About that time we hear the bird gobble way behind us down the creek. We decided to go up the creek and see what those guys on my uncles place were doing. When we got near to where they were I saw something on the ground that looked like somebodys clothes. On further inspection I noticed there were turkey heads sticking out of them (like something right out of the twilight zone). They had decoys wraped up in brand new purple sweaters!! They walked up to us and started talking but I decided not to ask anything about the decoys. Finally they told us that a buddy of theirs told them that tame turkeys hate purple and will attack anything with purple on it the first chance they get ! He then talked them into putting purple sweaters on their decoys because wild turkeys will do the same thing (talk about an April Fools joke).They said 2 turkeys started coming down the hill and all of a sudden they ran off (go figure). I told him that it sounded like sound logic and wished him luck with his setup. Later on we decided that when the turkey gobbled behind us he was telling our decoy (Come on !!! They'll put a sweater on you!!!)




This one I'll tell because my wife loves it. My wife and I were turkey hunting one morning and I was going to video her. I called up a bird but my wife couldn't get her gun on him. The turk sees her move and takes off running. I fired a shot at him but it was through too much brush and I didn't hit him. After the commotion was over I was replaying the hunt on my camera. You could hear Yonk Yonk Yonk Cutt Cutt and then a faint gobbbbbbbblllllle. This repeated a few times and my wife said "You are going to call him back up with that thing" . Of coarse I told her that she was nuts, he wasn't going to come back after I shot at him. It was about that time I heard something walking so I turned off the camera and listened. I started looking through the brush and there he stood!!![:-] It was the same turkey coming back to the calling on my video. Naturally my gun was on a tree 10 yards away and when I tried to get it he ran off.
I guess that is a good thing because if I shot him I would be hunting with an electronic call which is illegal in SC.lol